SUPPORTERS of the major opposition party in the country, under the auspices of All Progressives Congress Volunteers (APC-V), have urged Nigerians to protect and preserve the tenets of democracy in the country, saying the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led government has failed to address the basic problems confronting the nation.

  The opposition group said at a press conference in Kaduna Friday that President Goodluck Jonathan’s government having realised that Nigerians were fed up with his administration allegedly forced the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) under the chairmanship of Professor Attahiru Jega to postpone the general elections.

  The National Chairman of APC-V, Mr. Olusegun Bangbose said, “Nigerians have a collective responsibility to jealously protect and preserve the tenets of democracy in Nigeria”, adding that “PDP’s desperation to hold unto power at all cost portend a grave danger for democracy in Nigeria.”

  Bangbose said: “PDP should forget about imposing itself on Nigeria. How else will you prove PDP’s desperation when an Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 2, Mr. Joseph Mbu could go to the extent of threatening executive governors with arrest during the forth coming elections. This is most unfortunate. 

  “It is also in the news that Tinubu, Saraki and Amaechi’s phones have been bugged. It has also been reported that security operatives invaded APC Media Director, Garba Shehu’s home. Things are really going haywire. Nigerians should not allow PDP to destroy our democracy,” he added.

  Speaking on the chances of the APC Presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) in the coming polls, Bangbose explained, “our group believes that Buhari will make a better President, stressing that “it would be more politically suicidal for Nigerians to overlook the glaring impunity and excesses of the PDP and vote for them to retain power beyond 2015.”